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Tuesday May 17, 2005, Brussels - Today, representatives of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) delivered a law summon and invitation letter addressed to President Bush at the US Embassy in Brussels. It was part of a global action day, as similar actions took place in Japan, Sweden, Turkey and the United States. The WTI representatives invited George Bush to the final hearing of the World Tribunal on Iraq that will take place in Istanbul between 23-27 of June 2005.
In Brussels a number of (…)

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Claims in a recently uncovered British memo that intelligence was "being fixed" to support the Iraq war as early as mid-2002 are "flat out wrong," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Monday.
McClellan insisted the process leading up to the decision to go to war was "very public" — and that the decision to invade in March 2003 was taken only after Iraq refused to comply with its "international obligations."
"The president of the United States, in a very (…)

Rebel MP George Galloway’s Respect Party claimed today that evidence that he profited from Saddam Hussein’s regime was forged.
Ahead of Mr Galloway’s appearance in front of a committee of US senators in Washington, his party said the committee was relying on a counterfeit document created in Baghdad.
It said Mr Galloway’s name had been pasted on to a list of people and companies alleged to have made money out of the Oil For Food programme.
His name appeared in a different typeface to (…)

As if to add insult to injury, with over 400 Iraqis killed in violence during the first two weeks of the newly sworn in Iraqi “government,” US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice made a surprise one day visit to the newest US colony.
After visiting northern Iraq which has been spared the brunt of the ongoing violence, Rice traveled to the heavily entrenched “green zone” in central Baghdad where the U.S. “embassy” is located. She addressed a crowd in the former Republican Palace, the perfect (…)

As the death toll of troops mounts in Iraq and Afghanistan, America’s military recruiting figures have plummeted to an all-time low. Thousands of US servicemen and women are now refusing to serve their country. Andrew Buncombe reports
16 May 2005 - Sergeant Kevin Benderman cannot shake the images from his head. There are bombed villages and desperate people. There are dogs eating corpses thrown into a mass grave. And most unremitting of all, there is the image of a young Iraqi girl, no (…)

Remember the blue dress?
Some Republicans Secretly Meeting About Bush Lies and Exit Strategy
Democrats Demand Explanation for Bush ’Fixing’ Intelligence
Occupation-related violence increases US and Iraqi Deaths
Time for Impeachment?
The last few weeks have not been good ones for the war effort. Despite being given every huge military budget he has requested by Congress, President Bush can no longer credibly claim to be winning the war. ABC News reported last week that an unnamed (…)

President Bush today hailed biodiesel as "one of our nation’s most promising alternative fuel sources" as he stepped up pressure on a divided Senate to pass his energy bill.
He said the energy measure would reverse America’s fast-growing dependence on foreign oil. But he conceded, as he has in the past, that there was little he could do in the short term to drive down gasoline prices.
"I wish I could just wave a magic wand and lower the price at the pump," he said in a speech here. (…)

Are we going to stand idly by as more sovereign countries are attacked? This farce has nothing to do with getting rid of nuclear weapons in the Middle East or else the US would shut down the billions of dollars of aid that Israel receives. Money that is funneled into its massive chemical, biological and nuclear arsenal, which is turning Israel into a dominant superpower. Their military & political might remains unchecked. They are in firm control of the world’s remaining superpower, the (…)

Forty-one months after the United States entered World War II, we had achieved victory in Europe. We’ve been in Iraq for over half that period. What reasonable person would say we have reached the halfway point in Iraq?
Today’s troops are just as brave, patriotic and capable as their WWII predecessors. They have already accomplished much. They deposed and imprisoned a tyrant. They have given ordinary Iraqis the chance to shape their country’s destiny.
Nevertheless, the military (…)

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Apropos the European petition by organizations, unions and else to support the Left vote NO.
Initiating K project
La liste des signataires au 8 mai 05 / the list of signatures till May 8:
Of SLAVOJ ZIZEK, who signed on the European petition and more has just published a book ito support the left (…)